Rugaber’s scoop spurred the Washington Post to reassemble their Watergate team—managing editor Howard Simons, annoyed, cornered city editor Barry Sussman with the Times in hand and demanded, “Why didn’t we have that?”I And by the end of the day, Woodward and Bernstein were back on the beat until further notice—though in its own way, the assignment of two young, inexperienced reporters amid a newsroom filled with respected veterans still indicated how little attention the Post expected to get out of the scandal.
